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Government of Western Australia
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Department of Culture and the Arts grants results for 2014.
Arts Development Grants Program
$1,486,554
Arts Development grants support the creation of new work, and the development of
new skills and ideas in artforms including dance, theatre, writing, visual arts and craft
and multi-arts.
Creative Development Fellowships
Jamie Oehlers
West Perth
$60,000
Jazz saxophonist, performer and composer Jamie Oehlers will use his fellowship
towards a period of intense study and development, culminating in a recording in
New York with Australian jazz pianist Paul Grabowsky and American jazz artists,
drummer Eric Harland and bassist Reuben Roger.
Humphrey Bower
Hamilton Hill
$60,000
Theatre professional Humphrey Bower will use his fellowship towards opportunities
to study, research and train with a number of companies in Europe and the SSA
which specialise in collaborative and alternative development processes, theatrical
storytelling and literary adaptations.
Visual Arts Mid-Career Fellowships
Thea Costantino
Yokine
$25,000
Multi-media artist Thea Costantino will use her fellowship towards a period of primary
research in national and international institutions, including the Australian War
Museum and the Australian National Archives and Britain’s Imperial War Museum,
Royal Geographical Society and the British Library. This will be followed by the
development of a significant new performance work that unites the diverse genres
and media that are the hall marks of her practice.
Annual programs
The Australian Script Centre
Hobart Tasmania $10,000
The Australian Script Centre, through its business strategy, plans to engage with WA
playwrights and playwrights’ representatives in 2015. The centre has been the
national repository and archive for Australian theatre scripts for more than 30 years.
Online access to scripts and other related material has resulted in the growth of script
sales for the sixth consecutive year, and the involvement of WA playwrights in the
centres means greater recognition of their work and of WA theatre generally.
Perth Centre for Photography
Perth
$62,047
The centre has an important role as a provider of exhibition space and resources for
emerging and established photographers in WA. The funding supports the 2015
program which will present a good mix of local, interstate and international artists.
Fellowship of Australian Writers (WA)
Swanbourne
$17,370
The funding was awarded towards the Fellowship’s Creative Conversations initiative.
Mundaring Arts Centre
Mundaring
$80,800
In support of the centre’s strong program, particularly the curated exhibitions, and the
mentoring and professional development opportunities for WA artists. The funding
also recognises the importance of the organisation in the local and wider community.
Playwriting Australia
Sydney NSW
$50,000
The funding support recognises a national organisation that offers professional
development opportunities for West Australian playwrights, dramaturges, actors and
theatre producers in both the short and long term. Playwriting Australia has formed a
new partnership with Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company, which includes script
development and dramaturgical support for Indigenous artists.
Katharine Susannah Prichard
Greenmount
$30,250
The funding meets the Foundations request for writers’ and facilitators’ fees and
recognises the calibre and vibrancy of this long established organisation’s program.
The Foundation offers a broad range of skills development initiatives for both adults
and children, including strong writer-in-residence programs.
Perth Jazz Society
Mount Hawthorn $39,113
The Perth Jazz Society’s stated aim is to ‘grow the jazz sector’ and it works closely
with organisations such as the WA Youth Jazz Orchestra, WA Music Industry and
Tura New Music. Both emerging and established Western Australian jazz musicians
will benefit from the many performance and professional development opportunities
organised by the Society.
Music
Katherine Corecig
Dawesville
$6,322
Professional development in Toronto with the Cecilia String Quartet and Principal
Violist Teng Li.
Darlington Concerts Incorporated
Darlington
$3,250
2015 Winter Concert Series which includes five concerts from May to October in
Darlington and five concerts in Churchlands Senior High School.
Lost and Found Opera Incorporated
East Victoria Park $43,440
Towards producing the lost opera Medea by Darius and Madeleine Milhaund.
Tristen Parr
Dianella
$19,040
Decibel to undertake four projects in 2015 involving Australian and international
composers.
Dance
Aimee Bree Smith
Highgate
$31,973
Final creative development stage and presentation of Borderline at the State Theatre
Centre of WA. Borderline is a new contemporary dance work that creates a spectacle
of the embodiment and imagery of insanity.
Strut Dance
Perth
$13,952
Auspiced for Unkempt Dance to develop The April Project, which is a new dance
work inspired by a project of personal data collection undertaken over the past four
years.
Marrugeku Inc.
Cable Beach
$34,724
Final phase of rehearsals for a new dance theatre work Cut the Sky, which asks if, in
the face of seemingly inevitable industrialisation and climate change, is it possible to
dream a different future together.
PVI Collective Ltd
West Perth
$46,330
Auspiced for Rachel Ogle towards the final development rehearsals, design
integration and production of Precipice, a full-length work for four dancers, that has
been created over two previous developments with support from DCA, the Australia
Council and Strut.
Laura de Rose Boynes
Dianella
$30,000
Second stage development of Dark Matter, an immersive performance installation
with PRAXIS, which works across contemporary dance, sound and visual arts
between Perth and Canberra.
Performing Lines Ltd (WA)
Perth
$19,045
Auspiced for Sue Peacock and Michael Whaites towards the second stage of a
new dance work, not together, not alone,
Marrugeku Inc
Broome
$20,000
Towards presenting Gudirr Gudirr in partnership with Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company.
WA Aboriginal Dance Company
Nedlands
$38,400
Trading as Ochre Contemporary Dance Company. For the research and
development of content for a new contemporary dance production.
Writing
Deborah Fitzpatrick
Hamilton Hill
$13,200
Research, development and writing of a new adult fiction novel set in remote
Western Australia.
Jon Doust
Albany
$21,658
Funding will go towards the third novel in a quartet set in South Africa in 1973 titled
The One Fingered Hitch Hiker.
Australian Book Review (VIC)
$12,000
Funding will assist WA writers to contribute to the Australian Book Review in
2014/15.
Puncher & Wattmann Pty Ltd (NSW)
Publish Here Be Dragons a volume of poetry by Dennis Greene.
$9,034
Peter Docker
Broome
$20,000
Research and write a new work, Gotta Smoke, set in a seminal moment of change
and capitalising on the success of his third novel, Sweet One, which was released
this year.
Julia Lawrinson
Maylands
$12,340
Completion of a young adult novel about early onset Alzheimer’s disease.
Karen Blair
Fremantle
$16,141
Towards illustrations for a new picture book, Something Wonderful.
Caitlin Maling
Bicton
$19,048
Development of a second poetry collection Terroir, centred on Grey Shack
Settlement in Cervantes and the Gascoyne region.
Visual arts and craft
Australian Centre for Concrete Art Inc.
West Perth
$16,786
Production of a catalogue documenting an exhibition of large-scale interior and
exterior wall works at PICA, as well as the group’s previous projects since 2002.
Mary Wallace
Denmark
$23,030
Development and production of a range of high-relief carved ceramics.
Gemma Weston
Mt Lawley
$7,836
Funding to produce and present an exhibition for artists George Egerton-Warburton,
Jason Henrik Hansma, Eloise Sweetman and Caitlin Yardley at the Moana Project
Space, Perth in July 2014.
Anna Nazzari
Albany
$18,875
Development and production of sculptures and installation and a video for the second
stage of Spaced 2, a residency and exhibition project in Albany, 2014 – 2015. The
focus of the project is to create a series of scrimshaw whale teeth that honour the
skills, materials and histories of scrimshaw.
Paper Mountain
Northbridge
$6,760
Present a symposium and survey exhibition of Australian artist-run initiatives and
culture.
Thea Costantino
Dianella
$12,295
Present a solo exhibition at Turner Galleries of sculpture and a photographic series
to examine representations of imperial history, with an accompanying catalogue.
Pilar Mata Dupont
Wembley Downs $14,828
Promote four video works for the SeMA Biennale: Mediacity Seoul 2014 at the Seoul
Museum of Art in Korea and exhibit video trilogy Kaiho in a solo show at the Pori Art
Museum, Finland.
DADAA
Fremantle
$16,150
Auspiced for Jane Ryan, the funding will assist a series of artistic mentorships over
a 12-month period culminating in an exhibition at Freight Gallery, Fremantle.
Tarryn Gill
Kingsley
$16,463
Creation of work for a solo exhibition in which visual cultures of death, memory and
consumption are explored in an immersive, detailed installation at the Moana Project
Space, Perth in October 2014.
Abdul Hamid Abdullah
East Victoria Park $19,536
The development and exhibition of painting and photography titled The disaffected
by-products of the colonies.
Mix Artists Incorporated
Albany
$16,892
Presentation of contemporary art exhibition Home Front in Albany, WA.
Abdul Rahman Abdullah
East Victoria Park $10,375
Develop an immersive installation exploring childhood perceptions of Islamic halal
practices through realistic sculpture.
Contemporary Metal
Osborne Park
$12,843
Jewellery exhibition, A Year in the Making, at the JMGA Conference in Sydney.
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery UWA
Nedlands
$29,300
HERE&NOW15 Exhibition of contemporary Western Australian sculpture.
Waringarri Aboriginal Arts
Kununurra
$19,773
Attend Art stage Singapore 2015 for an exhibition and professional development.
Thea Costantino
Yokine
$21,366
Foreign Soil – a major solo exhibition of new work at John Curtin Gallery in 2015.
Damien Capone
Fremantle
$13,142
Develop a site-specific project through two residencies in Iceland for exhibition at PS
Artspace, Perth.
Toni Wilkinson
Bassendean
$18,736
Photographic and video exploration, and creation of new work on Kings Park for
exhibition, and photo book development and production.
Six Two Three Zero
Create large scale murals in Bunbury’s CBD.
Bunbury
$28,339
Julianne Ryan
Baldivis
$4,960
Auspiced for Katrina Barber, for mentoring and creation of a new work – a series of
experimental light constructions for a solo show.
Theatre
P & M Project and Management
Stirling
$24,905
Auspiced for Humphrey Bower to develop a script for an original adaptation of
Dostoyevsky's novel The Devils.
Perth Theatre Company Perth
$29,713
Auspiced for Jedda Productions for a documentary theatre work centred on the
rape of a twelve year old girl.
Bunuba Films Pty Ltd
Mundaring
$21,677
Stage two development and creative workshops for the proposed Bunuba Films Pty
Ltd and Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company productions of So Long Suckers and
Broadway to Bandilngan.
Rachael Dease
Mt Lawley
$11,290
First stage development of a new music/theatre work based on the life of Eugenia
Falleni.
William O’Mahony
Shenton Park
$4,852
To assist in writing the third draft of a new play Helium with fellow playwright
Nathaniel Moncrieff.
Multi-arts
Performing Lines Limited (WA)
Perth
$49,914
Auspiced for Sarah Rowbottam, the grant will go towards the presentation and
production of the Proximity Festival 2014 in partnership with Fremantle Arts Centre.
Proximity Festival is the first one-on-one performance platform of its kind in Australia.
Performing Lines Limited (WA)
Perth
$22,867
Auspiced for Michelle Hovane, Sensorium Theatre for the 2015 tour of Oddysea
to the Sydney Opera House and the Arts Centre Melbourne.
Performing Lines Limited (WA)
Perth
$55,000
Auspiced for Sarah Rowbottam to present and produce the Proximity festival 2015
in partnership with the Art Gallery of western Australia.
PVI Collective Ltd
West Perth
$29,371
Auspiced for Hydra Poesis, Didactic Tools Project is a group art and performance
project being led by artists Sam Fox and Kynan Tan, and produced by
interdisciplinary company Hydra Poesis to examine teaching, knowledge and data in
connection to culture.
Big Special Pty Ltd
Newtown
$17,001
Auspiced for Zoe Pepper for the development of Downloadable Performance - an
app-based interactive performance.
(Joe) Shang Yu Lui
Mount Lawley
$12,202
Creative development for new theatre work, The Book of Live (A story of Death.
Young People and the Arts grants Program
$351,097
The Young People and the Arts Program assists young people aged 26 and under
for all categories, except the International Scholarship which is for people 29 and
under, to engage in a broad range of arts and cultural activities. The program
provides a platform for young people to gain support for their emerging practice and
to access unique and transformative arts experiences.
Young People and the Arts International Scholarship
Katie Lenanton
North Perth
$30,000
Complete a Masters of Curating, Mediating and Managing Arts at Aalto University,
Helsinki.
Young People and the Arts Fellowships
Ella-Rose Trew
South Perth
$15,000
An 11 month fellowship focusing on skills development as a solo, collaborative and
collective contemporary dance through local, national and international activities.
Trent Suidgeest
Maylands
$15,000
To undertake the role of Assistant Lighting Designer with Flemish designer Jan
Versweyveld on Kings of War.
Elizabeth Pedler
Claremont
$15,000
Towards research and development for new works, including undertaking two artist in
residence programs.
Development and Marketing and Distribution
Moanacolutha Pty Ltd
Perth
$14,946
Alkimos Exhibition at Moana Project Space and Perth Fashion Festival which
involves young textile artists being mentored by other artists with fashion experience
to adapt sculptural practice to the human form. The development of the exhibited
work will mirror the process of creating a seasonal collection for a fashion label.
Mowanjum Artists Sprit of the Wandjina Aboriginal Corporation
Derby
$13,528
Provide training and resources for the Mowanjum Community through the Junba
Project – a multimedia youth engagement program.
Matthew McVeigh
Maylands
$13,129
Develop a series of new work titled, Built to be photographed and used to create a
high quality catalogue.
artsX Inc
West Leederville $16,364
The Doon Doon Project – Arts Workshops with young people of the remote
indigenous community Woolah.
Big Hart Inc
Roebourne
$13,200
Undertake creative development for the presentation of theatre production, Hipbone
Sticking Out. Set in Roebourne, the production premiered in Canberra and will now
be reworked to include new content and a larger youth cast to perform in Roebourne
in September. Fourteen young people will engage in three weeks of intensive
stagecraft, dancing and acting workshops that develop skills and content.
Perth Institute of Contemporary Art
Perth
$15,348
Administered for Snapcat – Renee Coles and Anna Dunnill for a collaborative
residency entitled, This Dingy is not Sustainable at the Fremantle Arts Centre in
2014.
Ella-Rose Trew
South Perth
$12,589
Following on from a six week residency in Finland in 2013, collaborators Isabella
Stone and Ella Rose Trew will use their grant towards the second stage development
of a contemporary dance improvisation practice. The work will be presented to an
audience of industry professionals.
Michael Bednall
Wembley
$4,400
Western Australian saxophonist Michael Bednall is composing a new major work for
saxophone which will be the centrepiece of a recital for the 17th World Saxophone
Congress in France in 2015.
Performing Lines Limited WA
Perth
$23,561
Administered for Isabella Stone towards presenting a new contemporary dance
work, mouseprint in the courtyard of the State Theatre Centre of WA.
Bunbury Youth Chorale Inc
Australind
$7,475
Stage a production of Disney’s Aladdin Junior at Bunbury Regional Entertainment
Centre.
Georgia Kay
North Perth
$10,178
Production of a new body of Sculptural work, La Flamme Verte to be presented as a
solo exhibition at 55 Sydenham Rd, a space run by artists in Sydney.
Julian Poon
Crawley
$6,984
Julian Poon will exhibit six works at the Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne and co-present
with DADAA and the Disseminate team, who will present their evaluation of the
Perth-based HERE&NOW13 exhibition.
Contemporary Dance Company of WA Ltd Perth
$20,000
Auspiced for STEPS Youth Dance Company Inc towards representation at daCi,
Copenhagen in July 2015.
Morgan Bain
Scarborough
$14,565
To tour and distribute the latest release, What You Believe to the east coast of
Australia with the band.
Kynan Tan
Inglewood
$12,434
Skills and new work development towards an interdisciplinary digital artwork,
polymorphism.
Gascoyne in May Inc
Carnarvon
Gascoyne Illumination II – large scale digital projections.
$18,468
Youth Affairs Council of WA
Perth
Community arts project, Home is Where My Heart Is.
$14,448
Elise Reitze
Towards a studio residency at PICA.
Cockburn Central $11,430
Scott Corbett
Mt Lawley
$19,970
Tour of main stage theatre show to Perth, Adelaide and Canberra.
Shire of Nannup
Nannup
Skills development youth project and workshop.
$13,080
Indigenous Arts Grants
$203,387
The Indigenous Arts Grant Program is open to Indigenous arts activity in all art form
areas, excluding film, television and radio.
Development / Distribution and Marketing
Candice Lloyd on behalf of the Merindas
Como
$13,825
Tour the Merindas Ready to Love show to Beijing, China, in August 2014.
Warmun Art Centre
Warmun
$22,000
Bush trips to document and retrace Ngarrgooroon country which will result in the
exhibition/publication of unique material exploring Gija relationships to Country.
Mowanjum Artists Spirit of the Wandjina Aboriginal Corporation
Mowanjum
$20,000
Development of workshops and an evening corroboree event which will be hosted by
Mowanjum Community and delivered during the Mowanjum Festival, July, 2014.
Robert Dann
Broome
$14,927
Performance and documentation of traditional Bardi dances along with the
development of four new Bardi Nyul Nyul dances.
Punmu Aboriginal Corporation
Port Hedland
$7,618
Support towards the Malya Yuturringu: Be a Star Festival for young people which will
feature workshops in film, music and performance and is scheduled for October
2014.
Arts Forward Fellowship
Gina McGill (nee Williams)
Bassendean
$25,000
Create a new performance piece around a body of contemporary songs performed in
Noongar language.
Desert Feet Inc
Wangkatjunka near Fitzroy Crossing $18,266
Desert Feet will record and launch a full length album of Olive Knight's music to
coincide with the release of her autobiography, being produced by UWA publishing.
The songs have themes of healthy eating and bush tucker through to youth suicide,
drug abuse, mental illness and alcoholism.
Marrugeku Inc
Broome
$20,706
Marrugeku to present Cut The Sky at the Perth International Arts Festival and
WOMADelaide. Cut the Sky is a musical which addresses the theme of the
industrialisation of the land. The performance will be marketed and showcased
internationally.
Yarliyil Art Centre Aboriginal Corporation Halls Creek
$22,000
Yarliyil Art Centre will deliver two three-week art development workshops developing
new techniques and media and to record stories and histories. The artwork
generated will tell the stories of Halls Creek from an Aboriginal perspective.
Warakurna Artists Aboriginal Corporation Ngaanyatjarra Lands $26,545
Towards a multi-arts project, Our Communities - Our Stories: Big Histories linking six
Aboriginal art centres from the Ngaanyatjarra Lands. Records will be made of sound,
images and art for the art centres’ archives.
Nyamba Buru Yawuru Ltd
Broome
$12,500
To mentor two emerging indigenous curators through Yawuru's emerging creators
program culminating in the production, installation and opening of the exhibition
Lustre: Pearling and Australia at the WA Maritime Museum.
Connect – Community Collections Grants
$100,870
Connect supports quality public programs and professional development for Western
Australian collecting organisations and collection professionals. Connect aims to
develop high quality visitor experiences and increase community engagement with
collections across three categories including Engaging Collections, Artist In
Residence and Professional Development. Projects can include residencies,
professional development, marketing and promotion of collections, exhibitions, public
programs or events.
Professional Development
Shire of Peppermint Grove
$7,230
Shire of Peppermint Grove Community History Librarian Sindy Dowden, will
undertake a training course in cultural heritage in order to better interpret the Shire of
Peppermint Grove collection.
Artist in Residence
Army Museum of Western Australia
Fremantle
$42,012
An artist in residence project in partnership with the Army Museum of Western
Australia that will result in a series of works based on World War 1.
Engaging Collections
Sisters of St John of God Ministries Inc.
Broome
$25,000
Develop pre-information and resources for teachers and visitors from their archive
and permanent exhibition of the Kimberley region.
Carnarvon Space and Technology Museum Inc
$6,628
Celebrate the opening of phase two of the Carnarvon Space Museum with an event
including a live soundtrack performed by MotET, put to recently discovered archival
footage from NASA.
City of Mandurah
Mandurah
$20,000
Create an interactive website with interpretive access to the Binjareb oral histories
(visual, oral and written records) promoting the history of the Binjareb people of
Mandurah to a local and global audience.
Creative Industries
$490,211
Designer Fashion
Colousol Group
Perth
$3,000
Colousol produced an event combining fashion, dance and music to promote
emerging creatives to the WA public and fashion sector.
Daniel Pavlovic
Darlington
$20,000
For a marketing campaign to promote awareness of the brand through a dedicated,
professional media campaign.
Pallas Brides
Subiaco
$23,964
Towards the creation of a new luxury bridal collection for the US market that was
showcased at NY Fashion Bridal Week in 2014. This premier global event ensured
the brand’s exposure to one of the largest markets in the world.
Salasai Australia
Jindalee
$21,000
To assist Salasai to showcase their collection at the Fashion Palette event in New
York in 2014.
Coyaba
Highgate
$20,300
Coyaba engaged the services of BigPicture PR for six months to develop a strategic
public relations campaign to raise the profile of the brand to the US market.
Kirsha Whitcher
Jindalee
$23,995
Trading as Salasai Australia Pty Ltd, the grant will assist in the engagement of USA
sales and PR agency Showroom Seven.
Petra Vanessie
Ascot
$13,000
To attend four global trade fairs to create a commercial presence in Asia.
Sarah Ryoko
Booragoon
$15,977
Trading as Monster Alphabets. Grant assisted in engaging a national PR agency to
develop the brand.
Tegan Cowlishaw
Morley
$4,210
Trading as Aarli Fashion. The grant went towards promoting and marketing the
Spring/Summer 2015-16 Urban Warriors collection.
Stephanie Caulier
Cottesloe
Redevelopment of website and online store for I Love Mr Mittens.
$20,300
South West Fashion Festival
Bunbury
$15,345
For its fourth event the South West Fashion Festival presented runway opportunities
for local Western Australian fashion designers to a targeted audience of local and
metropolitan fashion retailers and the public.
Bikini Atoll
Leeming
$14,000
Swimwear brand, Bikini Atoll implemented a targeted PR campaign for
Spring/Summer 2014-15 through product placement and editorial opportunities to
build and develop national and international awareness of the brand.
Convict Bags and Accessories
Glen Forest
$20,000
Convict created an editorial style campaign shoot and video to be filmed in iconic
locations throughout Western Australia to promote the brand to a national and
international audience,
Dyspnea
Warwick
$9,975
To assist emerging Western Australian fashion label, Dyspnea to showcase its
Spring/Summer 2014-15 collection at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Australia at the
New Generation show in Sydney in 2014.
Ae’lkemi
Osborne Park
$20,000
Established Western Australian fashion brand, Ae’lkemi showcased its
Spring/Summer 2014-15 collection in a solo show at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week
Australia in Sydney in 2014.
Flannel
Claremont
$19,996
To assist WA fashion brand, Flannel to participate in its inaugural European trade
event, Who’s Next in Paris 2014 to further establish the brand in the Northern
hemisphere.
Contemporary Music
Arts Radio Ltd
Mount Lawley
$23,640
RTR FM to produce 12 in-studio video performances of local bands to be used by
both RTR FM and the participating bands for promotional purposes both locally and
nationally.
Leederville Connect
Highgate
$7,720
Leederville Connect operated a music stage during the Leederville Carnival in 2014,
featuring Perth’s best original, contemporary music bands.
Daniel Cribb
Carine
$7,755
Daniel Cribb recorded an album in 2014 which was supported by a WA launch and
national tour, providing an opportunity to promote his label to a national audience.
Juliana Areias
Dianella
$10,000
Towards Brazillian born vocalist and songwriter Juliana Areias recording, producing
and launching an original full-length album.
Ayasha Amani Butcher
Coolbellup
$12,970
Towards Amani Consort producing a five track EP to be marketed both locally and
nationally.
Pat Chow
North Perth
$8,779
Pat Chow recorded and released their debut full-length album which was launched in
Perth in 2014.
Amber Flynn
Bayswater
Towards the recording and release of her second album in 2014.
$11,480
Bridget Turner
North Perth
$9,994
Simone and Girfunklel produced and marketed their second full-length album in
2014.
Rebecca Chilcott
Greenwood
$15,231
Ruby Boots aimed to increase her audience and market share by releasing her debut
album with support of a marketing video and a promotional national tour.
The Love Junkies
Serpentine
$14,616
Towards an interstate tour to promote the release of their album, Blowing on the
Devil’s Strumpet. The tour included the majority of national capital cities as well as
several regional cities and towns.
Laura Lowther
Yokine
$13,789
To Kucka for the production of a professionally mixed and mastered sophomore EP
for release through the NUNN record label in Europe and the US, supported by a
national tour and marketing campaign.
Voyager Australia
Perth
$16,556
Voyager was invited to perform at two major European festivals in 2014. In addition
they toured with Israeli metal giants, Orphaned Land as part of their anniversary tour.
Nathalie Pavlovic
Mount Lawley
The Dianas created and launched their debut album in 2014.
$9,345
Katie Freeman
Yangebup
$2,400
Trading as Expresslink Nominees Pty Ltd. The grant added digital grading to
Expresslink's services.
Shameem Taheri-Lee
Victoria Park
$10,894
Towards a national tour in support of a sophomore album release.
Tara Tiba
Mosman Park
$16,003
Towards the cost of touring to the United States and Canada to promote a new
album.
The Decline
Claremont
$15,995
To assist with the costs of recording, mixing, and mastering their third album.
Hailmary
Perth
$17,982
Hailmary recorded and released their sixth record, promoted with an international
marketing campaign, inclusive of lead film clip and a national tour.
Performing Arts Regional Touring Boost
$192,000
The Performing Arts Regional Touring Boost is a $900,000 grants program over
three years funded by the Western Australian State Government’s Royalties for
Regions (RfR) program. The aim is to increase the number and diversity of
professional performances touring regional communities.
Marrugeku Inc
Broome
$95,609
Marrugeku Inc from will tour their latest production of Cut the Sky - Five Songs for the
Future to the Peel and Kimberley regions in 2015, including eight performances and
associated workshops in Mandurah, Broome, Mowanjum (Kimberley), and Fitzroy
Crossing. The company then leaves for Europe to perform in Denmark, Belgium and
France. Cut the Sky explores the impact of climate change from an Indigenous point
of view through dance, video art and song.
Gina Williams
Bassendean
$26,894
Contemporary musicians Gina Williams and Guy Ghouse will tour Kalyakoorl, Ngalak
Warangka (Forever, we sing) to the South West, Great Southern and Wheatbelt
regions in 2015. The workshop component of the Kalyakoorl tour is being supported
by the Department of Education and includes one of the language songs, Wanjoo,
being taught to primary school children in advance of the tour. A total of 25
performances will take place in a range of venues and locations including town halls,
agricultural shows, festivals and theaters in 24 regional centres.
Kalyakoorl, Ngalak Warangka is Gina and Guy’s debut album. It was released in April
2014 and is sung almost entirely in Noongar language. Kalyakoorl follows Gina’s
personal story of love and loss, reconciliation and hope.
Performing Lines Limited
Perth
$69,813
Performing Lines will tour The Skeletal System’s Great White to the Great Southern,
Peel and South West in 2015, including Albany, Margaret River, Bunbury and
Mandurah. The company will also offer a range of community engagement activities
including workshops by Barefaced Stories’ Andrea Gibbs to develop curtain raisers, a
photographic exhibition, Milestone Moments, and directing, acting and improvisation
masterclasses.
Great White was written and directed by Will O’Mahony and is described as an
intimate, human love story about growing up and making choices. Great White won
the 2013 Performing Arts WA Award for best new play and the production had sell
out seasons at the Blue Room in 2013 and Fringeworld in 2014.
Arts & Edges Travel Subsidy funding initiative
$25,000
The Arts & Edges DCA Travel Subsidy was a one-off funding initiative that supported
21 Western Australian artists and art workers from around the State to attend the
2014 Regional Arts Australia Summit: Arts & Edges in Kalgoorlie-Boulder during
October.